Questions tagged [exim]
Exim is a sendmail-compatible Mail Transfer Agent, licensed under the GPL, designed for Unix-like operating systems.
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How to disable all bounce back email in exim 4.69
I have set up an email server to send out solicited newsletters.
There should be no "regular" users of this server, so it is not desirable to send bounce notifications back to the recipient. ...
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Sending mail from PHP with exim4
A web server I manage is having problems sending mail from PHP. This server uses exim4 for MTA, and it is configured correctly.
I can send emails from PHP's CLI, but not from the web. i.e. if I do "...
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exim4 - disable autoreplies about "SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT"
I have a setup of exim4 on domain1 in front of other server, domain2 (with sendmail). Second server have no direct access to internet, so domain1 is MX for domain2. And domain2 is set as hubbed_host ...
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Is there any point to Teergrubing anymore?
I'm just installing a new mail server, using Exim 4 and the sa-exim Debian package. Part of the configuration uses Teergrubing (or tarpitting), and while it sounds like a great idea in theory, I also ...
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Can I remove emails from /var/spool/sa-exim/SApermreject?
I have a lot of emails in /var/spool/sa-exim/SApermreject. Can I remove these emails or will this lead to some kind of nasty spam problem? Or is this just a history of all the emails that were never ...
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Exim unable to sign DKIM keys for outgoing mail
I currently have an issue with exim, I am trying to make it so it will sign outgoing emails for specific domains with a key for DKIM (there are multiple domains that this server sends for and not all ...
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Exim can't receive emails but send on Amazon EC2
I have Cenos 6 installed on Amazon EC2 instance. Also I install exim+dovecot to send and receive emails. I have two domains and two network interfaces with connected elastic IPs. In example internal ...
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debian/exim4: eading local mail with the mail command as root
I am using a network-less LXC container with a small debian stretch setup, which contains exim4 and probably, nothing more from mail related programs.
I am able to send mails to the root user and I ...
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How to set up a nested if for an exim tls certificate?
At first my config for exim tls certificate looked like this:
tls_certificate = ${if exists{/etc/exim4/ssl/${tls_sni}.crt}{/etc/exim4/ssl/${tls_sni}.crt}{/etc/exim4/ssl/exim.crt}}
tls_privatekey = ${...
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Exim not Listening on port 465 or 587 for TLS connection
I am configuring Exim on a Ubuntu server to send and receive mails via TLS.
Followed many guides which shows on how to configure Exim with TLS but still my Exim doesn't listen on 465 or 587
Exim ...
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Exim fakereject control not working
After following the Exim documentation on ACLs, I cannot get Exim to utilize the fakereject control for the address [email protected] with the following config (only relevant lines included):
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exim4 checking client certificates always invalid
My exim server is configured to ask for a client certificates when a connection is made. I set up an ACL (at rcpt stage) to log or add a header resp. of the outcome of the certificate check:
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exim 4 : add header to ALL messages
I'm looking for a way to add headers to all outgoing emails in exim4 (debian 8 setup).
I have tried differents things based on headers_add but i guess my main question is where to put this rule (the ...
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EXIM: Relay to Office 365
I'm trying to configure exim to relay mails via an Office 365 account. I can find quite a few examples of doing this via postfix but almost none on exim.
Is this at all possible? The idea is to have ...
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Using www as hostname on a server running apache and exim?
I have a VPS that is currently hosting a website and also serves as a mail server running exim. I own a SSL certificate for website.com which also works for www.website.com.
Since my server's FQDN is ...
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SMTP connection from localhost
Since a few days ago I have been seeing recurrent SMTP connection from localhost each few minutes or so when checking /var/log/exim_mainlog
2015-05-08 13:34:41 SMTP connection from [127.0.0.1]:48724 (...
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Can mailman/exim reject nonmember postings at connection time?
I am using Mailman with Exim. When a nonmember posts to a mailing list, Mailman can be configured in any of the following ways, each of which has a problem:
Accept it -- this distributes spam to all ...
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How to get exim4's smtp and pop3/imap server name and settings?
I'm missing exim4 configuration file in /etc/exim/exim4.conf.
dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config runs OK and sending/receiving emails is also OK. I just don't know where is the configuration saved.
The ...
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Exim4 setup not working with piping
I'm trying to setup exim4 on the server, so that it can receive mail for a couple sub domains, and I want to pipe that to a PHP script. I want all incoming mail to be processed through my custom ...
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Dovecot doesn't use my mail_location parameter
I'm using Exim 4.72 and Dovecot 1.2.15 on Debian 6.0.9.
Exim delivers emails to /home/username in a mbox file.
dovecot.conf
mail_location = mbox:~/:INBOX=/var/mail/%n
But -
dovecot -n
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How to setup exim to check the From field
We setup exim to use Amazon SES to route all your emails, but we found out that if we use an email forwader created by cPanel, Amazon doesn't properly route those emails because it's coming from a ...
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Forward mail to multiple recipients with exim4
I use a server to forward email sent to various domains to the appropriate users' main inboxes. I've got a fairly standard exim installation with the following major change to the configuration:
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exim4 redirect router, fallback if redirected delivery fails
I run an exim4 instance that is the primary MX for my domain and receives email from the public Internet. Mail for my users is forwarded on to other email addresses - I use the redirect router and ...
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Can I configure exim to deliver new mail to Maildir cur/ instead of new/?
I would like to set up an Exim4 delivery driver or perhaps a .forward/filter file that delivers certain mail straight to a MailDir's "cur" dir, instead of the "new" directory.
Is this possible?
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Deliver mail originating from machine/processes to outside machine
I'm running a Ubuntu 12.04lts server with denyhosts, logwatch, apticron etc daemons which send emails to a user on the machine when something happens.
Since I don't use the root account; I aliassed ...
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Exim Prevent Mail Sent by Relay [closed]
Currently it appears that somehow someone is using my server to send spam as I'm seeing 100's of rejection emails from other email services (such as gmail) saying the message could not be delivered "...
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Exim: Send mail to secondary address as well as retrying delivery
I am trying to set Exim up so that, after a certain period of time, emails are forwarded to a secondary address as well as still sitting in the undelivered queue with delivery attempts to the original ...
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How can I make exim deliver a single incoming mail to multiple local maildirs?
I'm maintaining an IMAP server running FreeBSD which uses exim 4.80 as its MTA. Right now I try to create an email alias so that I can address all users of the system for informing them about ...
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Protecting Exim queue from spammers and hogging system resources
Is there a way to protect Exim from spammers? Today had someone sign up and spam the queue with a bunch of e-mails. I run CPanel and have it so Exim only allows so many per hour but the system hit a ...
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How can I change exim's DKIM and SPF for emails sent?
I've now spent 2 hours trying to figure out this issue and I am about to give up and go to bed. I've been having issues with Gmail rejecting emails from my VPS server because of false spam alerts (...
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Configure exim4 (or other MTA) to prevent sending duplicate emails
How can I configure exim4 (or another MTA) to avoid sending duplicate emails?
For my purposes a duplicate email can be defined as: same recipient and subject (or same recipient, subject and body)
I ...
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How to delay delivery of emails based on recent soft bounce activity with Exim
I am running Exim 4.74, I am sending solicited bulk email.
AOL at times soft bounces us saying we have been temporarily rate-limited and should try again in some number of minutes. We would like to ...
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GeoIP based greylisting with Exim?
I have been using Sendmail together with milter-greylist for many years at several sites.
milter-greylist has support for defining greylisting rules based on GeoIP database lookups. This is very ...
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Rate Limiting Outbound E-mail Message on a WHM/cPanel/Exim/CentOS 5 system. .
I have a client who is using Interspire e-mail marketer to send out his e-mail messages, and this guy sends something like 100,000 e-mails per session and does this around 3-4 times per month.
He's ...
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Exim Router Forwarding
I am looking to use exim on a 'frontend' simply to hide the IP of the true backend mail servers. This exim configuration will server for multiple domains. Really what I am looking for is confirmation ...
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rogue process started by sec sending hundreds of mails
I started a sec process via /etc/init.d/sec start with a bad config file (the arguments being passed are in an unintended format.
When a rule passes it tries to mail me. If the mail script dies, it ...
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Make exim send bounces from a non-empty address?
Exim, by default, sends bounce messages using MAIL FROM:<>, which my upstream SMTP host rejects. I've seen options to add an AUTH= address to the MAIL FROM line, or to change the From: address on a ...
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Exim4 copying authenticated outbound email to a specific address
I run an Exim 4 mail server for friends and clients. We've just given our 8 year old son an email capable device and he uses this server for outbound and inbound email. All outbound email is sent ...
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configuring dnsbl for exim4 (on debian)
Debian docu says i should do it this way:
CHECK_RCPT_DOMAIN_DNSBLS = zen.spamhaus.org/$sender_address_domain : dnsbl.sorbs.net/$sender_address_domain
but it does not work. my dialup ip is listed on ...
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Unable to remove postfix on Ubuntu: Could not perform immediate configuration on 'exim4'
I'm trying to remove postfix from my (recently upgraded to 10.10) Ubuntu server.
I keep getting this error when I try to remove it (with apt-get remove postfix, or purge):
Could not perform ...
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Linux/Unix MTA with the smartest queue?
I am looking for an MTA that will allow me (a script, really) to proactively manage its send queue in response to status codes returned by the remote servers I am delivering to.
Basically, for each ...
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Forward email from exim to another mail server on different port
Exim seems to be very flexible and configurable. What would be the best approach for me to forward an incoming email to exim to another mail server running on a different port like lamson? I am ...
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Email Server Configuration (exim4)
I recently setup an exim4 server instance only for the purpose of allowing our host to send outgoing emails (the application hosted therein sends a number of automated email messages).
Recently ...
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Exim sends mail from apache@hostname instead of the hostname I'm defining
Whenever I send mail via Exim, even if I set a from field, it always says the e-mail is from: [email protected]. Is there any way to make the from field work or at least change the default ...
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Automatically split References header at 998 characters in Exim
Microsoft Windows Outlook has a bug whereby the References email header is allowed to grow up to 1012 characters before being split, in violation of the RFC SMTP line length limit. Postfix will ...
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How to Fix Microsoft Exchange incoming emails always failing with DKIM bodyhash mismatch
I am noticing on our servers that since we set DKIM to reject failures on Exim (v4.95) that a LOT of genuine emails are being rejected.
Looking at the Exim rejectlogs we see that persistantly these ...
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Exim Unable to Read DKIM Key
Exim is spitting out (what looks like) a privilege error:
# tail -n1 /var/log/exim/paniclog
2021-11-15 16:38:35.955 [682275] 1mme43-002rUN-QV unable to open file for reading: /etc/opendkim/keys/...
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TLS Problems when changing providers relay host
Good Evening,
first time posting.
This forum and it has helped me many many times.
I was looking to for some advice / views on a problem I’m having.
The server is relatively old, Debian 6 to be exact ...
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Exim: Redirect mails without spooling
I am running a personal mail server using exim that only forwards mails (and also runs a few mailman mailing lists).
Unfortunately, my server’s spam protection is worse than that of the mail provider ...
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Remove IP and username from Exim mail headers
I have an Exim4 running on Debian which I use for transactional emails from my other servers protected by CloudFlare. Every transactional email sent from it has an IP address of the sender (1.2.3.4) ...